Latest Sale continues to report luxury findings and news from the Business Directory. This week we focus on Fine Art and the sale of Claude Monet’s 1908 painting “Le Grand Canal showcasing the Venetian waterscape.” The sale of this iconic 73cm x 72cm oil on canvas painting sold at Sotheby’s Impressionist, Modern Art and Surrealist Auction held in London on Tuesday evening 3rd February 2015 reached $35.6M (£23.7m). The painter of light’s work with dynamic, animated views of Santa Maria della Salute had previously been on loan from the National Portrait Gallery in London for eight years since 2006 is the highest price paid ever for a Monet Venice view series painting. This infamous painting is filled with nuances of the ‘air’, or what he called ‘the envelope’ –…
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Ali Jabbar, Abstract Art Video Stars, Still and Full, West Coast jazz
Still and Full is the opening masterpiece for Ali Jabbar’s Fine art video developed by the Latestsale.com Marketing team, showcasing his abstract art collection now available as Limited Edition Prints and high quality FineAbstract Art Posters. Tranquillity, waiting and longing typify this fine artist’s work, with his artistic endeavours now accompanied with a cool jazzy beat, reminiscent of West Coast Pacific Highway ocean drives. Vivid contrasts open up the dialogue for abstract art, its challenges and joyous exuberance as artistic endeavours are displayed in a vast array of room settings; abstract art in the living room, the office and open spaces. Limited Edition Abstract Art Prints and high quality Fine Abstract Art Posters are now available for this talented fine artist Ali Jabbar, who consistently pushes boundaries…
Fine Art self-portraits from genius beginnings
Fine Art Self-portraits from genius beginnings; Marie-Denise Villers, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giorgione, Sandro Botticelli, Peter de Hooch, Johannes Vermeer, Leonardo da Vinci. Latest Sale highlights numerous portraits that, for one or more reasons, have been suggested to be presumed, probable or possible self-portraits of artists for whom there is a shortage of definitive proof to the contrary. Self portraits are known to capture the haunting gaze of the subject that may display a distant, intensely focused overtone that is almost trance-like. (Images: Marie-Denise Villers, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giorgione, Sandro Botticelli, Peter de Hooch, Johannes Vermeer, Leonardo da Vinci)
19th Century European Art, Fine Art Auction, Christie’s
Latest Sale reports from the luxury Business Directory with a focus on Fine Art. The 19th Century European Art sale at Christie’s comprises 93 lots from several schools, including a strong selection of Victorian works. Highlights include James Jacques Joseph Tissot’s In the Conservatory (Rivals), property from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has not been on the market in over three decades. Another Victorian sale enjoyed by Christie’s is Edmund Blair Leighton’s A Call to Arms (To Arms!), depicting the artist’s best-known subject, an anecdotal scene of England’s past. Additional highlights include a superb mix of Orientalist, Barbizon, and Academic paintings by artists such as Corot, Boldini, Sorolla, Ernst and Béraud. James Jacques Joseph Tissot’s In the Conservatory (Rivals) image, courtesy of http://www.jamestissot.org/